About post

post is The Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. With a primary focus on modern and contemporary art outside North America and Western Europe, the website invites contributions by individuals and institutions from around the world and makes behind-the-scenes research at MoMA available to a broader public.

post seeks to spark in-depth explorations of artistic practices, contexts, and the ways in which modernism is being redefined. Essays, interviews, trip reports, artists’ commissions, archival materials, translated sources, and bibliographies reflect new research perspectives that continue to emerge in art history today. post is the public face of Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP). C-MAP is a cross-departmental, internal research program at The Museum of Modern Art that fosters the multiyear study of art histories outside North America and Western Europe.

Participants

Contributors to post include staff of The Museum of Modern Art as well as an international network of individuals and institutional partners. We invite our readers to become part of this expanding community by creating a profile and joining the conversation.

C-MAP: Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives

Founded in 2009, C-MAP emerged from a long history of international outreach at the Museum, including recent projects of the International Program and numerous curatorial initiatives. The initiative is currently organized into three research groups that focus on modern and contemporary art produced in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. A senior-level curator leads each group assisted by a resident fellow who has a specialized command of the group’s specific area of focus. The C-MAP groups’ members include senior and junior staff from all curatorial departments, the Library, the Museum Archives, and the Department of Education. Each group invites eminent scholars, artists, and curators to lead regular seminars at the Museum according to a geographically focused curriculum and conducts research trips to build local contacts and firsthand knowledge. In addition, C-MAP fosters long-term strategic partnerships with distinguished cultural institutions worldwide. As a result of these combined efforts, the groups develop a better understanding of the works already in MoMA’s collection from the areas of study, just as they seek to create a deeper knowledge of the broader historical context for future acquisitions and programs.

C-MAP Asia Group The Asia Group is led by Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance Art, together with C-MAP Fellow for Asia Rattanamol Singh Johal. After an initial focus on performativity in postwar Japanese art, the group then expanded its temporal scope into the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and its geographical focus to wider East Asia—especially China and South Korea, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong. Since 2015, the group has focused on the histories of modernism, postmodernism, and contemporary art across the Indian subcontinent.

C-MAP Central and Eastern Europe The Central and Eastern Europe Group is led by Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator in the Department of Photography, together with C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe Ksenia Nouril. The Central and Eastern Europe Group was begun with a focus on the Museum’s Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, which includes works by several Fluxus artists from Central and Eastern Europe. Since then, the group has extended its research to various conceptual and experimental practices from the region. It is currently focusing its research on Russia and commencing a long-term partnership with the Muzeum Sztuki in Łodz, Poland.

C-MAP Latin America The Latin America Group is led by Luis Pérez-Oramas, Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in the Department of Drawings and Prints, together with C-MAP Fellow for Latin America Jerónimo Duarte Riascos. Initially focusing on abstraction in Latin America, with a specific focus on Brazil, it now concentrates on selected local contexts, while also pursuing connections and comparisons across borders and time periods. Recently, the Latin America Group examined the cross-pollination between literary and artistic scenes that is characteristic of art in Chile and Peru and members traveled to meet with artists and scholars and visit institutions. Current and forthcoming areas of research include Colombia, the Caribbean, and Central America.

How to Participate

post is designed as a participatory platform. Upon creating a user ID, anyone can post comments, texts, images, and videos throughout the site. To get started, click on the "SIGN UP" tab. To join the conversation, click on the "DISCUSS" button that appears throughout the website. Select “FOLLOW” to the right of each content page to receive updates when new materials are added that relate to your interests. To unfollow, simply deselect the same box.

Submissionspost encourages research into a broadly considered global art history, and welcomes proposals from scholars on a range of topics related to modern and contemporary art, including art from the specific geographic regions thematized on the site (Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas). Cross-geographic proposals are also encouraged. If you are interested in publishing on post, please consider the following:

• Proposals should include a 200-word abstract, CV with publication history if applicable, any specifications about type of content (essay, interview, or curated selection). Please note any images you would like to use for which you do not have image rights and how you will procure them. Send the proposal to post’s Editorial Team at contact_C-MAP@moma.org.

• The editors will review the proposal for completeness and present at an Editorial Board meeting, considering the quality of the proposal, its feasibility, and how it aligns with post’s mission and publishing schedule.

• Accepted proposals will be contacted within 90 days, to lay out an agreeable timeline and terms to the writing agreement. Author must provide text as well as images, captions, and rights to the images (if not already held by MoMA).

Credits and Contacts

The Museum of Modern Art's Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) initiative is supported by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art. Special thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for founding support of C-MAP and post.